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Fiat to invest over Rs. 2,300 crore in
Pune unit |
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Pune News: Fiat India Automobiles will
invest Rs. 2,341 crore more at its existing
Ranjangaon facility in Pune to ramp up its
capacity. With this investment, the company
is taking the overall investment in Pune to
Rs. 4,020 crore. Fiat India is a 50:50 joint
venture between Tata Motors and Fiat Group
Automobiles. |
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Salisbury Park land sale: It’ll take a
while, says SDA |
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Pune Property News: The Salisbury Park
land controversy continues to generate heat
for the second week with rumour mills abuzz
that the sale of the Rs 250-crore,
24.31-acre land belonging to India Financial
Association (IFA) of the Seventh Day
Adventists (SDA) will be registered on
Monday. But, the chairman of IFA, Ronn Watt
told The Indian Express over phone from
Bangalore that they were not yet ready. |
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PMC acquires 421 properties in 1 year |
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Pune Property News: The Pune Municipal
Corporation’s land acquisition department
has created a record of sorts by acquiring
as much as 6.15 lakh square meter land in
one year (2007-08). This is much more that
the 4.76 lakh square metre of land acquired
by the civic body during the four-year
period (2003-2007) before that. In terms of
the number of properties acquired, 159 were
acquired in the four-year period and 421 in
2007-08. |
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Stage set for Pune film fest |
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Pune News: The sixth Pune
international film festival (Piff) will kick
off at Ganesh Kala Krida Rangmanch on
January 10 in the presence of celebrities
from the world of cinema. A statement
released on Tuesday by the Piff organising
committee said that registration for the
mega event will start from January 3. The
venues are E-Square, Inox, Ganesh Kala
Kreeda Rangmanch and National Film Archives
of India (NFAI). |
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Couple found dead in Pune |
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Pune News: Twenty-year-old Devi
Shingade, who was pregnant, and her husband
Nilesh (27) were found dead under mysterious
circumstances in their house at Kharalwadi
in Pimpri on early Monday morning. Prima
facie the Pimpri police suspect it to be a
case of suicide. Nilesh's father, Narayan
and his brother Shrinivas rushed them to a
nearby private nursing home, which referred
the case to Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial
Hospital (YCMH). The authorities at YCMH
pronounced the couple as 'brought dead'. |
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Pune police to question Wipro BPO staff |
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Pune News: Police is all set to
question Wipro BPO officials to detail the
sequence of events leading to rape and
murder of Jyotikumari Choudhary, an employee
of the firm. The investigating officers
would be drafting questions in consultation
with legal advisers to fix the
responsibility for the alleged negligence
shown by the company officials,
Superintendent of Police (Rural) Vishwas
Nangre Patil said. |
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Online sex racket busted in Pune,
website unrepentant |
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Pune News: After drugs and rock ’n’
roll, sex has caught the eye of the police
in Pune. The Crime Branch last week
unearthed a major Internet-based sex racket
of countrywide proportions involving
models-turned-television actresses — three
were arrested. The action followed last
month’s arrest of two Mumbai-based models
and a tout from the film industry, and the
detention earlier in... |
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Pune expo to zoom in on world of
animation |
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Pune News: Students of art and IT who
have an eye for animation can have a peek
into what the field has in store for them.
The Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industries
and Agriculture (MCCIA), the apex body of
industries in the Pune region, will organise
an animation workshop in Pune, where
students can get a chance to interact with
the companies in gaming and animation
industry. |
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Hamara Bajaj, no more for 2,700 Pune
plant workers |
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Pune News: The prefix, Hamara, is
threatening go out of the lives of a
majority of about 2,730 Bajaj employees at
the automobile major’s Pune production
facility at Akurdi, set up in 1960. While
the move to stop two-wheeler production at
the Pune plant has not come as a surprise,
what has stunned them is the manner in which
Rajiv Bajaj, managing director, Bajaj Auto
Ltd (BAL) has gone about it — by telling
them that they can continue to draw salary
for five-and-a-half days a week without
bothering to come to work, starting
September 1. |
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Sanjay Dutt shifted to jail near Pune |
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Pune News: Actor Sanjay Dutt was today
shifted from the Arthur Road Jail here to
Yerwada Jail near Pune after he withdrew his
application to be kept in a prison in this
city. Dutt, given a six-year jail term in
the 1993 blasts case on Tuesday, withdrew
his plea in the special TADA court of Judge
P D Kode after authorities submitted a
report that cited several reasons why he
could not be kept at Arthur Road Jail,... |
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Berger Paints to set up Rs 50-cr plant
in Pune |
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Pune News: Berger Paints India has
decided to set up an automotive paints plant
in Pune for a cost of Rs 50 crore.
Automotive paints have a 30 per cent share
in the Rs 11,000-crore domestic paints
market, and the company wants to win a
sizeable share in this fast-growing market.
Berger Paints is also looking to acquire
companies in emerging markets like Russia,
China, Brazil and across eastern Europe to
expand its global footprint. |
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Storage levels in 24 reservoirs across
Pune higher than last year, on June 28 |
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Pune News: Despite the monsoon
arriving only on June 18, late by over three
weeks as compared to last year when the
monsoon hit the district as early as May 31,
the storage levels in 24 reservoirs across
Pune are comfortably high. While the
intensity of rain this year has been far
greater, also less water has been drawn for
irrigation purposes. |
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DSK to set up multi-services SEZ in Pune |
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Pune News: DS Kulkarni Developers has
plans to set up a multi services Special
Economic Zone(SEZ) at Fursungi, in Pune.
According to a release issued by the company
to the BSE today, the proposal has received
recommendation for in principal approval of
the Board of Approvals recently. Kedar
Vanjape, vice president, DS Kulkarni said,
"that the proposed SEZ is for multi-services
sector and would be spread on the ... |
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Pune Hosts 'Blog Camp' at SCIT |
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Pune News: The Blog Camp meet, held at
the Symboisis Centre for Information
Technology (SCIT), Pune, saw over 200
bloggers, IT companies and web start ups,
come together to discuss issues faced by
Indian Blogosphere. The day long convention
covered topics such as Podcasting, How to
start and grow a blog, Blogging for the
learning professional and Dealing with
trolls and stalkers, among others. The event
was an... |
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5-yr-old boy dies after falling into
borewell near Pune |
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Pune News: A five-year-old boy, who
fell into a borewell while playing at a
village in Shirur taluka of the district on
Sunday, died in a hospital after being
rescued, official sources said. Sonu Shivaji
Deshmukh was trapped at about 20-feet inside
the 150-feet narrow borewell since 1030
hours after falling into it. He was
rescued after a seven-hour ordeal and
immediately taken to a hospital in Shirur in
an unconscious state where... |
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Pune’s blogging community gets its first
chance to unconference |
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Pune News: Discussions on topics as
varied as censorship and citizen’s
journalism, ‘Blogcamp Pune’ — Pune’s first
blog unconference held at Symbiosis Centre
for Information Technology (SCIT) — was
attended by over 120 bloggers — both the
recent converts and the veterans — from Pune,
Mumbai and Goa. |
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Ahmednagar sex scam traced to Pune |
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Pune News: In a dramatic development, the
prime witness in a high-profile Ahmednagar
sex scandal was found loitering at the ... |
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Pune girl held for ex-lover's murder |
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Pune News: Pune police arrested a student
accused of poisoning her former boyfriend to
death. Aditi Sharma, from Jammu was ... |
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University of Pune says AICTE encroaching
on its authority |
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Pune News: Taking objection to the
“encroachment” on its authority by the All
India Council of Technical Education (AICTE),
... |
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Property taxes go up in Pune cantt
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Pune News: The Pune Cantonment Board (PCB)
has hiked the residential and commercial
property taxes of all houses and
establishments ... |
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After power, it’s
PPP in infrastructure for Pune
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Pune News: Pune’s PPP in power is paving way
for more such models in other cities with
many wanting to emulate Pune to ... |
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QuantumID plans
$1-m RFID centre in Pune |
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Pune News: QuantumID Technologies, a
Boston-based pure horizontal RFID player, is
bringing commercial RFID applications for
the ... |
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Traffic police
shelve plan to decongest Pune Station
area
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Pune News: Failure on the part of the Pune
Municipal Corporation to build a road
divider on Sanjay Gandhi Road has led to the
... |
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Disputed NIBM
property valued at Rs 10 crore |
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Pune News: Prime property admeasuring 48,000
sq ft (1.5 acres) in an upmarket part of the
city made popular by the name of the
National ... |
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Wait till June for property tax bills
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Pune News: The debate over fixing property
tax rates for financial year 2007-2008 has
delayed the finalisation of tax bills ... |
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